Single-player games like Deadline Escape
Below are 9 single-player Steam games similar to Deadline Escape, ranked by player overlap. Every pick carries Steam's Single-player category, so multiplayer-only titles or always-online games don't sneak in. imho.run pulls the category data from Steam directly — Single-player here matches what the store labels.
Want the full alternatives list (paid + free + Steam Deck + cheaper picks)? See the parent games like Deadline Escape page.
Ranked picks
- 1
Escape from Ruin: Greymart Simulator
Single-player alternative to Deadline Escape — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Deadline Escape.
A post-apocalyptic loot-fight-extract survival game with escape-style raids by day and black-market shop management by night. Fans of Tarkov-like gameplay — and players who love running management sims — will feel right at home.
- 2
Escape from Ashville
Single-player alternative to Deadline Escape — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Deadline Escape.
Loot, fight and extract — or lose everything. A high-risk extraction shooter focused on survival, tactical combat, and meaningful decisions.
- 3
MEAT TRAIN
Single-player alternative to Deadline Escape — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Deadline Escape.
Meat Train is a FPS game where you operate a train thats uses MEAT for FUEL. Explore a wasteland where everything wants you dead, scavenge for weapons and loot. Upgrade the train and attempt to destroy an evil AI megafactory.
- 4
Never Be Alone
Single-player alternative to Deadline Escape — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Deadline Escape.
Never Be Alone is an open-world zombie survival game for solo play and seamless co-op. Explore a world reclaimed by nature, protect a fragile safezone, and uncover the truth behind your forgotten past 10 years after the outbreak.
- 5
Cold Sweat
Single-player alternative to Deadline Escape — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Deadline Escape.
Cold Sweat is a PvE single player extraction shooter set in a post-apocalyptic world. Collect loot, complete missions for traders, upgrade your base, customize your firearms, and shoot your way through other survivors and the undead.
- 6
CHEMISTS: Area of infection
Single-player alternative to Deadline Escape — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Deadline Escape.
A year after the global catastrophe, you woke up in a hospital and don't remember anything. You have to not only find out what happened, but also try to survive in this harsh dangerous world.
- 7
Infect: The Last Stand
Single-player alternative to Deadline Escape — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Deadline Escape.
Experience brutal Hardcore PvPvE survival powered by Unreal Engine 5. Every decision matters, every step could be your last, and every sound you hear might be your final one. Do you have what it takes to survive the hunt?
- 8
ZERO Sievert
Single-player alternative to Deadline Escape — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Deadline Escape.
Now with over 600,000 copies sold, ZERO Sievert is a tense top-down extraction shooter that challenges you to scavenge a procedurally-generated wasteland, loot gear, and explore what’s left of a devastated world. When the odds are stacked against you, you’ll need to do more than just survive...
- 9
SurrounDead
Single-player alternative to Deadline Escape — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Deadline Escape.
SurrounDead is an open world survival game. Taking place in a world ravaged by an apocalyptic catastrophe. The dead reign free and will stop at nothing to kill you.